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xserver-xorg-input-synaptics package

Touchpad not working on ASUS A6L laptop

Bug #107764 reported by Sinkaiya on 2007-04-19

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	xserver-xorg-input-synaptics (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I have Asus A6L (A6B00L) laptop, it has a special hardware button to turn the touchpad (synaptic) on or off. In previous versions of Ubuntu (6.10 and 7.04 Alpha Herd 5) To make it work, I added to the touchpad section of xorg.conf this line:

Option "SHMConfig" "true"

But in the release of 7.04 I haven't found even a line about the touchpad in xorg.conf! :( So I added this section:

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
        Driver "synaptics"
        Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
        Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
        Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
        Option "HorizScrollDelta" "0"
        Option "SHMConfig" "true"
EndSection

and reloaded. But unfortunately it haven't work... :((

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Dan O'Huiginn (daniel-ohuiginn) wrote on 2007-04-19:

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. Unfortunately we can't fix it, because your description didn't include enough information.

Please include the information requested from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingHardwareDetection as separate attachments.

I'm also subscribing the laptop team.

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Sinkaiya (sinkaiya) wrote on 2007-04-19:

hardware.log Edit (44.0 KiB, text/plain)

Hi Dan, thanks a lot for answering so quickly. :) A have prepared all these commands and saved the results into a text file. Hope it will help to solve the problem.

Best regards,

Serge "Sinkaiya" Novikov

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote on 2008-09-09:

Please try 8.10 alpha livecd to see if the touchpad works. If not, attach /var/log/Xorg.0.log from the live-session to this bug.

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote on 2008-10-31:

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.